What's your best sounding CD?

[tentoze]

Lessee here, quickly and all from just memory, since I'm not near my cd's:


Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms- my personal "reference" cd
J. Armatrading, The Shouting Stage- huge soundstage
James Taylor, New Moon Shine- Frozen Man is my favorite JT tune of all time, and this whole cd is really fine-sounding
V. Morrison, Enlightenment- just about all of his stuff sounds pretty well-recorded to me, though.
Leo Kottke, Great Big Boy- shimmering guitars and Leo's trademark "geese farts on a foggy day" vocals.

[Slosh]

I guess I'm a little spoiled by LP. I find it kind of ironic that LPs tend to have more dynamic range than CD, even though CD's s/n spec is something like 40+ dB better! That aside I like these CDs' sound:

Grandaddy - Sumday
A bit bright but never harsh. Detail abounds.

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Yeah, there's tape hiss but otherwise it's superb.

Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - The Swimming Hour
Some tape hiss here too but not quite as loud as the above.

McLusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is I'm Not On Fire
Has that dry Albini sound but very open and clean.

Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Just listened to this for the first time in a couple of years and just now noticed how well-recorded this one is.

NP: Enon - High Society (this one sounds pretty nice as well but too much compression )